SOUVEREIGN of the SEAS, L 95cm x W 24cm x H 80cm She was ordered as a 90-gun first-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, but at launch was armed with 102 bronze guns at the insistence of the king. It was later renamed HMS Sovereign, and then HMS Royal Sovereign at the Restoration of Charles II. The elaborately gilded stern ordered by Charles I of England meant enemy ships knew it as the "Golden Devil".[5] She was launched on 13 October 1637, and served from 1638 until 1697, when a fire burnt the ship to the waterline at Chatham. Tons 1522 Length 127 ft (39 m) (keel) Beam 46 ft 6 in (14.17 m) Depth of hold 19 ft 4 in (5.89 m)